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Three-Time Loser. Beefy Alfred Dugan was a thug, and he had a long and varied police record. In 1941, already a veteran of two prison terms for narcotics-dealing and armed robbery, he drew a 12-to-15 year sentence for robbing a bank messenger of $108,000 in Asbury Park, N.J. Paroled after five years, a three-time loser, he joined the drift of strong-armed ex-cons into labor racketeering, made enough money to buy a $40,000 house in Mountainside, N.J. for his wife and two small daughters. A month ago Tough Guy Dugan, 52, turned...
...sentence: death by hanging for Jamali and three others. On hearing the verdict, Jamali seemed almost to lose his balance, then leaned wearily on the railing of the prisoner's box. An assistant prosecutor bawled: "Long live justice! Long live the republic!" Out on the Baghdad streets, the mob howled its joy, clamored for even more death sentences. The mob was clearly closing in on General Kassem, who alone has the power of clemency. The U.S. and Britain felt horror and shock at the verdict (they had expected a prison term), but knew that any public statement by them...
Bundled into "association wards" (i.e., cells) in St. James Fort prison, the prisoners were forbidden to see their relatives or even to receive food from them. At one point, Nkrumah's strong-arm Minister of the Interior, Krobo ("The Crowbar") Edusei, inspected them along with an escort of guards armed with truncheons. Over the radio the government insisted that it had no desire to curb the opposition, even proclaimed the end of a two-month-old ban on political meetings. But The Crowbar, a mug through and through, was not yet done with his work...
...politician is to uproot his enemies. Others who are involved in the plot and have not been arrested will be, one by one." Those already in jail, added Edusei, would be kept there five years, and anyone visiting them more than four times would end up in prison too. Edusei then announced that the government was withdrawing the passports of members of the opposition, added that he had thousands of secret policemen at work watching for potential subversives. And what if the people had resisted the mass arrest? "I would have brought out my armored cars and slaughtered them like...
Lyons concluded in 1936 that, "Curley controls the Commonwealth by means of the smallest and cheapest political heelers that ever shined their trousers in the seats of public office in Massachusetts." In this year's Al Smith and His America, Handlin refers to Curley's "richly deserved prison terms," finds him "the prototype of everything that Smith abominated," a "freebooter." These are understatements; for his original text had "the publishers a little worried and they softened it down some." Harsh as it is, this view may be typical of what Harvard thinks of Curley...